Morphology + Lexicology

Which of the following statement(s) about morphemes is FALSE?

• All morphemes can stand alone as words.

• Some morphemes change a word’s meaning or function.

• • A single word can contain multiple morphemes.

• Bound morphemes cannot function independently.

What is the primary difference between derivational and inflectional morphemes?

• Inflectional morphemes change word class, derivational morphemes do not.

• Derivational morphemes create new words, and inflectional morphemes only modify grammatical features.

• Inflectional morphemes add prefixes, derivational morphemes add suffixes.

• There is no difference.

Which of the following words contains both a derivational and an inflectional morpheme?

• Happier

• Unhappiness

• Jumping

• Rewritten

Which word formation process is demonstrated in the word ‘brunch’?

• Blending

• Compounding

• Clipping

• Backformation

What is the primary difference between compounding and blending?

• Compounding involves combining whole words, blending merges parts of words

• Blending is only used in informal language, compounding is not.

• Compounds must be hyphenated, blends are not.

• There is no real difference.

Identify the type of morphological change in the word 'editor' → 'edit'.

• Conversion

• Backformation

• Blending

• Reduplication

Which of the following is an example of suppletion?

• Go- Went

• Bake- Baked

• Speak-Spoken

• Build-Built

Which process is responsible for the creation of ‘email’ from ‘electronic mail’?

• Acronymy

• Clipping

• Backformation

• Compounding

What is the difference between a bound root and a bound affix?

• Bound roots carry core meaning but cannot stand alone, bound affixes modify meaning

• Bound affixes can function as independent words, but bound roots cannot.

• Bound roots only appear in borrowed words, bound affixes do not.

• There is no difference.

Which of the following words demonstrates zero derivation (conversion)?

• Running

• Children

• Unhappy

• Butter